maximum recursion depth exceeded

[Mike Romberg]

  I'm attempting to try and gracefully handle situations where
infinite recursion can occur in scripts supplied to our system by our
users.  To do this I've tried the following:


try:
    eval("Some code which might recurse")
except exceptions.RuntimeError:
    # Handle error

  When I supply a string which causes infinite recursion, I see these
messages on the console:

Exception exceptions.RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded'
in  ignored

  But I can't seem to catch the exceptions.  Is there something
special about this exception?  Or am I just missing something obvious
(which I have been know to do from time to time).

Thanks,

Mike Romberg (romberg at fsl.noaa.gov)